Wednesday, December 19, 2012

How much do you pay for team communication? Look at Skype and ConceptDraw MINDMAP as low-cost highly-effective tools

With growing demand for support of
virtual teams, the presence of ubiquitools with omnifunctions on platforms for
everything from a phone to a computer has exploded in the past decade. Consultancies,
small businesses and virtual teams have their pick from a wide range of options
to assist in the management of remote staffers.

One low-cost service that has seen
increased use since its inception to improve communication is Skype®. With over
“250 million active users each month [and] over 115 billion call-minutes logged
in quarter 2 (of 2012), alone,” Mark Gillet, Skype’s Chief Development and Operations OfficerSkype is a
clear leader in cost-effective communications. Now, CS Odessa has capitalized
on that popularity and released a new feature for ConceptDraw® MINDMAP that
instantly shares and opens presentation documents for each attendee before the
presentation begins.

Unfortunately,
when it comes to communication tool-sets, many developers miss the mark when it
comes to cross platform applications. Often, the practical solution is a
piecemeal of software, email, and phone services that can result in an adequate
level of communication; adequate, but not ideal. If some users are not using
the preferred platform, a meeting can get congested with dissemination of
information, as users can’t all read the same documents.

Since both ConceptDraw MINDMAP and
Skype are Windows and Mac compatible, all users have the freedom to access and
edit documents mind map documents on their own system while a presentation is
underway. Furthermore, even if a mind map was created using other ConceptDraw products,
such as ConceptDraw Project, the users can still view the entire document using
just ConceptDraw MINDMAP and Skype.

One of the best features of
ConceptDraw MINDMAP its cost-effectiveness. For $199 per license, you get a
powerful mind-mapping and presentation tool. Using MINDMAP with Skype
Presentation, MINDMAP delivers empowering interoperability features that can
support meetings, briefings, and brainstorming sessions from across the world
with heretofore unseen accessibility, ease-of-use, and power. Combined with
Skype’s low or no-cost, Skype Presentation Solution for ConceptDraw MINDMAP
gives users a high-powered efficiency tool raises project success-rates
dramatically.